Before you spend money, double check on a Bond actor’s address by either Google search, contacting them on Facebook, or looking for their official webpage. You are more likely to get an autograph if you write “To me please, [to my name]…” so they know you won’t be reselling it later. Go generic instead if […]

For two hours on May 28 you could have spent £750 on a special, limited edition of The Devil May Care, the new James Bond Novel written by Sebastian Faulks. Published by Penguin in collaboration with Bentley, Bond’s car manufacturer of choice, each book comes in a burnt oak leather case sourced from the tannery in Italy which supplies the hides for Bentley’s interiors. Purchasers also receive a 1:43 scale replica of the modified Bentley R type that featured in Thunderball and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. (The car never actually existed but Bentley based the miniatures on Fleming’s detailed descriptions.)

“Beginn-or-oh-seven Collectors” mostly own a handful of gadget assembled by some Q’s purvey of some DVDs or other gifts. They never thought to collect Mr. Bond. These chaps, and more rarely (okay, much more rarely, chapettes) come home pie-eyed from visiting an experienced collector or checking on thousands of Bond items now on eBay. Once “bitten by the bug,” as Bruce Glover stated in Diamonds Are Forever, even newbies quickly graduate to full-fledged Fleming freaks and boffo (sometimes boorish, but bold) Bond buffs.

Collectors’ Day is a great way to spend a day if you do not mind telling hundreds of visitors your favorite Bond(s) and why, pointing out the differences between the DB5 and the Volante, and just generally inciting excitement among Bond enthusiasts. We also distributed free of charge posters, premiere tickets from Casino Royale, pamphlets about Bond and more.

Remember I told you the Lotus from TSWLM was for sale? Not anymore. James Bond’s Lotus from The Spy Who Loved Me has fetched £111,500 at a London auction. The white 1976 Lotus Esprit was sold to a private US collector who was bidding over the telephone at the Bonhams sale. The buyer described himself […]

If I had the cash laying about, I’d consider it: Bonhams auction house in the UK has announced that it has one of 007’s classic sports cars for sale. The white 1976 Lotus Esprit from the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, is expected to fetch £100,000-120,000 ($267,000-320,000 […]

A review of the new Aston-Martin featured in Quantum of Solace. The stereo doesn’t rock. Roger Moore says the new Bond movies are too violent. David Arnold has received an honorary degree from Bedfordshire University. Time Magazine reviews Bond and his booze. James Bond haiku. Enter a contest to win Penfold Hearts golf balls as […]

I met Roger Moore last night. For like a second. He was autographing books at Bookends in Ridgewood, New Jersey. The line went around the block. Actually, there were two lines: First to buy the book, next to get it signed. No autographs of books bought other than from that line that night—your receipt was […]

I said, “I don’t have a chance in the world. They want large breasted women, not me, and besides that, I’m not tall and I’m not white.” Lloyd said, “They want to see you. Don’t you understand? You have to fly back.” I asked, “Who’s paying?” I had to think about it. This was an expensive audition. After a couple of days of numbers crunching, I called back and gave an exasperated, “Okay! Where’s the audition?”

Lloyd gave me executive producer Harry Saltzman’s New York office address with the time and date. I caught the next flight out, visited my New York apartment and changed clothes. You see, I kept my New York apartment and I gave myself three months for attempting acting work in California. The weather was “Indian Summer” and it was November…